Comments on: Pandora now has 20 million registered users http://musically.com/blog/2008/12/23/pandora-now-has-20-million-registered-users/ The Music Ally Weblog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason http://musically.com/blog/2008/12/23/pandora-now-has-20-million-registered-users/comment-page-1/#comment-14569 Jason Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:49:18 +0000 http://musically.com/blog/?p=549#comment-14569 I still won't understand how Twitter is useful or different from any other blog platform. Just because Pandora chose to break the news on its Twitter feed, how does that prove that Twitter is a useful platform? Since twitter became so popular over the past few months and TechCrunch has essentially turned into the "Twitter Daily Newsletter," I've become more and more baffled as to why its important and why I or my clients should be using it. Every day I see more and more bands that have signed up for the service, but I've still got zero reason to have any of my bands join it. With all of the blogging/social networks bands in particular are already a part of (MySpace, tumblr, faceook, ilike, imeem, bebo, youtube, purevolume, and buzznet- among a bunch of others), why force fans to sign up for another feed of information? They can just as easily (and more immediately) get the news that an artist is "in the studio" or "eating a ham sandwich" on facebook or myspace. Twitter is creating ANOTHER place that fans have to go to get the same information that they can more easily get from the sources they're already familiar with. I'm hoping 2009 is the year that twitter sees its quick, painful demise. I still won’t understand how Twitter is useful or different from any other blog platform.

Just because Pandora chose to break the news on its Twitter feed, how does that prove that Twitter is a useful platform?

Since twitter became so popular over the past few months and TechCrunch has essentially turned into the “Twitter Daily Newsletter,” I’ve become more and more baffled as to why its important and why I or my clients should be using it. Every day I see more and more bands that have signed up for the service, but I’ve still got zero reason to have any of my bands join it.

With all of the blogging/social networks bands in particular are already a part of (MySpace, tumblr, faceook, ilike, imeem, bebo, youtube, purevolume, and buzznet- among a bunch of others), why force fans to sign up for another feed of information? They can just as easily (and more immediately) get the news that an artist is “in the studio” or “eating a ham sandwich” on facebook or myspace.

Twitter is creating ANOTHER place that fans have to go to get the same information that they can more easily get from the sources they’re already familiar with.

I’m hoping 2009 is the year that twitter sees its quick, painful demise.

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